Jon Rollins - In Slip, Again (acrylic, enamel, graphite, ink, and paper on canvas, 10" x 8", 2019)
My studio is filled with a decades’ worth of scrap materials: sketches, notes, tests, tape, table coverings, and abandoned paintings. I see these as artifacts of phases of my life both inside and outside of the studio. They contain the questions, mistakes, and discoveries of their time. In my latest work, layers of scraps, drawing, and paint are built through cycles of spontaneity and deliberate choice. This process is a reevaluation of each scrap, the period of its creation, and the search for its resolution: the moment when a torn drawing or an old piece of tape just fits.
My studio is filled with a decades’ worth of scrap materials: sketches, notes, tests, tape, table coverings, and abandoned paintings. I see these as artifacts of phases of my life both inside and outside of the studio. They contain the questions, mistakes, and discoveries of their time. In my latest work, layers of scraps, drawing, and paint are built through cycles of spontaneity and deliberate choice. This process is a reevaluation of each scrap, the period of its creation, and the search for its resolution: the moment when a torn drawing or an old piece of tape just fits.
My studio is filled with a decades’ worth of scrap materials: sketches, notes, tests, tape, table coverings, and abandoned paintings. I see these as artifacts of phases of my life both inside and outside of the studio. They contain the questions, mistakes, and discoveries of their time. In my latest work, layers of scraps, drawing, and paint are built through cycles of spontaneity and deliberate choice. This process is a reevaluation of each scrap, the period of its creation, and the search for its resolution: the moment when a torn drawing or an old piece of tape just fits.